Synesthesia Experiment from Caltech

Do you hear anything when viewing the moving dots? Play the movie repeatedly for best effect. More here: http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/08/can_you_hear_movement.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Synesthesia

[daveTHEjackel]

i hear something like a computer fan, wow thats great

[loltheworld]

you're all forcing it.

[PearlsofLife3]

i don't know if i am forcing it or not, but i can somewhat associate movement with sound, normally a low whurr sound or something similar, but its so mild that i never notice unless i am thinking about it. oh well i guess i can't say i really have synesthesia, just that its easy for me to associate movement with sound, but it happens all the time, i just never thought of it. maybe i do, maybe i don't, either way im kinda jealous of ppl who see music, i wonder if u ever get tired of it though?

[Farrywind]

Even if I try to count 1,2,3.... I still hear it sucking and blowing in my head. Not in my ears. Very strange and impossible to ignore.

[Muffinzeshlongun]

@loltheworld

Bingo. Unless they happen to be on acid.

For some reason the second time I listened to it I thought of a wooshing noise. Forced? Yes.  Interesting? Probably not

[jessicamoocow12]

It's weird, I don't physically hear an actual sound, but it makes me think of a sound automatically. Like Darth Vader's breathing. Lol, I don't know, just a low and loud inhale and exhale.

[heartheart47]

"whur"ing noise and then reversed

[BonjourNatalie]

sizzling.

[skeyugen]

same here

[Ad1rtytub3s0ck]

I hear the sound of a pouch of marbles hitting the ground and spreading apart. They sting the ground as the spread apart and almost whistle.

[nolongereatsshit]

It feels like someone's pulling me back and forth.